Welcome to the temple of beer… though there’s not a drop to drink.
Buddhist monks – who believe strongly in the concept of rebirth – have made it by recycling a million beer bottles.
Local authorities have been encouraged to deposit empty beer bottles at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex in north-east Thailand since 1984.
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Sometimes known as Wat Lan Kuad, or Temple of a Million Bottles, the monks now use the empties to construct almost everything on the site, from the crematorium to the toilets.The disused bottles don’t fade, provide good lighting and are easy to clean. And the eco-friendliness does not just stop at glass – mosaics around the temple, mostly of Buddha, are made out of bottle caps.
But what about beer cans? Jeff’s House of Beer Cans is one answer. This is another.
It’s. . .lovely! Much better looking than the typical recycled vessel dwelling. . .perhaps these building techniques should be themselves ‘recycled’ elsewhere around the world! I wouldn’t mind having a glass meditation room in the forest here.
A friend of mine in Hawaii paved his driveway with crushed beer cans that he proudly reminds me he drank personally. It is pretty cool.
#2, Ron,
Nothing personal, but that is just a little too haole for me.
There is a Wine Bottle house somewhere around Victoria BC. Turn your bottles into bricks. Makes sense to me. The house has really nice green light inside during the day, and glows green at night when there are lights inside.
#4, faxon
I’ve seen a similar house in Southern Ontario. The guy built it originally as a small barn but ended up moving in.
Canadia must be a hotbed of bottle houses. There’s one in Alberta made out of bottles of embalming fluid (empty). A bar in NT or YT is made out of old wine and beer bottles…. I wonder what the “carbon footprint” is for bottle houses, compared to the deposit / return / accounting / truck back to the bottler system that has come into government favour in recent years.